Great Blue Heron
A juvenile Great Blue Heron stalking its prey (three-spined stickleback) at Lost Lagoon, the 23rd of September, 2023.
Lost Lagoon, December 11th, 2021
Words to Begin the New Year
“Hope rises out of known suffering and is the defiant and dissenting spark that refuses to be extinguished. Optimism, on the other hand, can be the denial of that suffering, a fear of facing the darkness, a lack of awareness, a kind of blindness to the actual. Hope is wised-up and disobedient. Optimism can be fearful and false. However, there exists another form of optimism, a kind of radical optimism. This optimism has experienced the suffering of the world, believes in the insubordinate nature of hope and is forever at war with banal pessimism, cynicism and nihilism.”
~ Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files, Issue #178, December 2021
All feels very cold, dark, uncertain and lonely in this moment but I believe the light will return. I’m holding onto hope and radical optimism.